Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class & Power
Applying theory to practice, Women Teaching for Change reveals the complexity of being a feminist teacher in a public school setting, in which the forces of sexism, racism, and classism, which so characterize society as a whole, are played out in multiracial, multicultural classrooms. |
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Acknowledgments As an undergraduate studying history I was taught to read texts as the product of wider intellectual movements reflecting the concerns and tensions of a particular time and place, And now when I read I try to locate the ...
... she argues instead that they are mutually informing relations of contradiction that produce forms of social and moral governance, on the one hand, and the regulation of subjects, texts, and subjectivities on the other.
In other words, we don't know what is happening in schools in which feminist teachers are actively critiquing and analyzing sexism in texts and the media, teaching the history of women, or discussing such issues as sexual harassment in ...
While critical educational theory has largely failed to recognize sexism as a significant issue to be addressed and as a result has failed to consider the ways in which gender has been both produced and reproduced through texts and ...
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Contents
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CHAPTER TWO Feminist Analyses of Gender and Schooling | 27 |
CHAPTER THREE Feminist Methodology | 57 |
CHAPTER FOUR The Dialectics of Gender in the Lives of Feminist Teachers | 73 |
CHAPTER FIVE The Struggle for a Critical Literacy | 101 |
CHAPTER SIX Gender Race and Class in the Feminist Classroom | 125 |
CHAPTER SEVEN Conclusion | 147 |
Bibliography | 155 |
Index | 165 |